Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders to approve a long-pending agreement to open consular offices in selected U.S. and Soviet cities, and authorized the exchange of weather information with the Russians. Further, he has suggested several more substantive steps: a mutual reduction of forces in Central Europe, a treaty against the spread of nuclear weapons, a pact governing the peaceful uses of space, a tariff reduction for the Communist bloc, and the lifting of bans on travel by Americans in Albania, North Viet Nam, North Korea, Cuba and Red China...
...with a breezy "I'm from London. How are you?" The visitor was British Foreign Secretary George Brown, 52, making his first trip to the Soviet Union to discuss with Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko a peace plan for Viet Nam and the problems of nuclear proliferation. Brown did not get far with the Russians, but he predictably described the talks as "frank" and "most useful." Those are adjectives that apply equally to Brown himself. Lately Harold Wilson has been leaning increasingly on the unusual talents of Britain's most ebullient and controversial politician...
...current issue of the Saturday Evening Post, Columnist Stewart Alsop argues that it is not too early to see John F. Kennedy in historical perspective and from that vantage point Alsop decides that Kennedy was a great President. His reasons: Kennedy made the nuclear deterrent credible, and he made clear the social and economic problems that face the U.S. For a third criterion of greatness, Alsop offers an odd suggestion: "As far as nature will permit young American males now brush thei: hair forward and out, in a sort of prow to make it look as much like John Kennedy...
...also praised the Church for the role it played in achieving the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty...
...Boeing expects to sell some 400 over the next nine years. Along with more sales of its bread-and-butter 707s and tri-jet 727s, Boeing also picked up its first major Pentagon order since 1958. Under an initial $236 million contract, the company will develop and produce a nuclear-tipped SRAM (for short-range attack missile), a sort of son of Skybolt that can be launched from airborne bombers, guided to targets 100 miles away. SRAM may be worth $1 billion to Boeing eventually...